Interesting Links for 15-08-2013

[andrewducker]

• Scientists forget to turn off equipment… and make ‘impossible material’ Upsalite - the world’s most efficient water absorber
  (tags: accident chemistry science )
• All 823 Barbara Cartland novels to be republished. (Thank goodness for Print-on-Demand?)
  (tags: publishing )
• Hacker! Shouts! Abuse! At! Baby!
  (tags: babies webcam hacking security )
• 40

Comments

[philmophlegm]

Interesting about Nighy - he was the most talked about candidate when Eccleston got the job, so I wonder if he was actually first choice then. That seems the most likely.

[andrewducker]

It does - although I wonder how much they rewrote stories once Ecclestone was in place.

[philmophlegm]

Indeed. And not just stories, but the whole character of the 9th Doctor.

Real, true facts. No. Really. No fake facts here.

[cartesiandaemon]

LOL. Yep, sounds good to me.

Although, and I had to look this up on wikipedia, if you increase the pressure enough (10,000 atm?) you can eventually get hot water to turn into ice, although it has a different crystal structure to normal ice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice#Phases

[artkouros]

If it's not canned it must be pharmaceutically enhanced. Because The Big Bang Theory is just not that funny.

[andrewducker]

They undoubtedly make sure the audience is well lubricated. And there's a warm-up comedian.

And the audience will be made of excitable people who are all massive fans of the show.

[danieldwilliam]

If I knew how to do it the temptation to hack into the booking software at the BBC and send all the lovers of comedy to a Count Arthur Strong recording and vice versa just for the, wait for it, LOLZ would be huge.

[alitheapipkin]

I still cannot believe they have made that into a TV show, everyone I know who has heard of it, thinks the radio version is the most unfunny comedy radio 4 have ever broadcast*.

*That may be a slight exaggeration but you get the idea.

Barbara Cartland

[danieldwilliam]

Jings, Barbara Cartland wrote a lot.

Re: Barbara Cartland

[andrewducker]

Mostly Twilight Fanfic, from what I understand.

Re: Barbara Cartland

[danieldwilliam]

:-)

Re: Barbara Cartland

[philmophlegm]

Funniest. Comment. Today.

[holyoutlaw]

[off topic]

Here's a very interesting article from 2002 about Orson Scott Card that I think deserves wider circulation. It was only recently brought online:

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/articles/Boninessay.htm

[This is pretty much the same comment I made to supergee.]

[andrewducker]

Much though I disapprove of OSC, I don't really feel comfortable with things that speculate about people's sexuality.

Try James Nicoll :->